Small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) have been highly conducive to economic
development in Vietnam. SMEs are a mean of income generation, job creation, poverty
reduction, and government revenue contribution, etc. However, SMEs have lagged far behin ...

The study examines the relative importance to New Zealand consumers of environmental certification compared to other wood product
attributes using conjoint analysis. A survey of preferences for product attributes for wooden outdoor furniture using differ ...

This paper examines the New Zealand banking industry’s efficiency and productivity changes
during the period 2007‐2011, a period dominated by the US subprime mortgage crisis. Data
envelopment analysis (DEA) is used to identify the technical efficiency f ...

Since independence in 1950s Malaysia has been recognized as one of the more successful
countries in fighting poverty: head count ratio came down to 5.7% by 2004. However the recent
process of rapid urbanization has led to an increase of urban poverty aggr ...

The aim of this study is to explore whether efforts to encourage producers to use agricultural machinery and equipment will significantly improve agricultural productivity, income distribution amongst social groups, as well as macroeconomic performance in ...

Since 1990, the European Union (EU) is New Zealand’s second biggest trading partner after Australia. New Zealand’s exports to the EU are mainly in agricultural products, such as sheep-meat, butter, venison, kiwifruit, apples, wools, hides and skins. New Z ...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the behaviour of the share prices on the acquired bank, Trust Bank New Zealand Limited, involved in a merger proposal. Asquith, Burner and Mullins (1983) have identified a number of different techniques available fo ...

This paper investigates the impact of microcredit on rural households. The impact of a microcredit program on target households is subject to two main sources of bias, observed and unobserved bias. To evaluate the microcredit program’s impact, we used the ...

This paper examines key factors influencing the accessibility of microcredit by rural households in China. The
empirical approach is built upon logistic regression and data are collected through a household survey. A total of
twelve household-level factor ...